Nine years ago today, America woke to find our world changing before our
eyes. The images of 9/11 are those we swore we would never forget.

Each year at this time, we pause, and we remember.

Thousands of lives
were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures
of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures
collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a
quiet, unyielding anger.

~ President George W. Bush

The full horror of what has
happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming
clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and
terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered
President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our
profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens
of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have
been caught up in this terror.